Flag Research  - How can I present religious themes within my flag?

How Artists Have Reinterpreted the American Flag Throughout History

Dread Scott, What Is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag? (1989)

Danh Vo, She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene (2009)

Realigous objects in linking to flag? 

David Cole, American Flag (Toy Soldiers #12) (2002)

Natural materials - grass, leaves, bark mixed with unnatural products  - could I use the deterioration of these materials as a way to present themes behind the flag? 

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Flag) (1979-80)

Layering of materials 

Josephine Meckseper, Untitled (Flag 2) (2017)

AA Bronson, White Flag #8 (2015)

How can I use textures and materials to communicate my themes and ideas on my flag?

Andrew Schoultz, Gold Bombed Flag (gold splatter) (2017)

Printing over imagery - how can I merge analogue and digital processes with my flag design.

David Hammons, African American Flag (1990)

An inverted approach to the project? How could I contradict the themes of religion with my flag? 

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions 66) (1991)

Typographic approach to the flag? - how could this relate to the coded and religious theme

Robert Longo, Untitled (Torn Flag) (2018)

Blake Fall-Conroy, Police Flags (2009)

Lighting and 3d sculptures

Sterling Ruby, FLAG (4791) (2014)

Collaging different textures and forms (2d and 3d) could create a flag which communicates different themes in a subtle way. This could definitely be explored in relation  to the computer code/religious themes.

Could make a mural and photograph

Mel Ziegler, A Living Thing–Flag Exchange (2017)

I like the idea of creating a flag which has personality/characteristics to its form, that makes it look/feel like it has a living presence. This piece above makes me think of a stage curtains falling down at the end of a broadway show; it's this motion/action which is created from this still image, which I want to transfer to my flag design.